Mouth of Miami River, Florida, 1884

[sharpiefan]

Photo by Ralph Middleton Munroe (The Commodore)



...from The Forgotten Frontier, by Arva Moore Parks



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[Breakaway]

One of my favorite waterways. Starts in a hip section of big city downtown, and then proceeds to morph through old-school neighborhoods, industry, seediness and dllapidation, before, finally, you find yourself in the Everglades. It's a very cool waterway to cruise, lots of places to stop and eat..again from high-end hotels and restaurants, to great cuban sandwiches.

Here's what the mouth looked like a few weeks back, my last time there.



[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/216237038[/vimeo]

Kevin

[Breakaway]

Sorry, videos do not seem to be working for me on the Forum today.

Here is the link to the video. https://vimeo.com/216237038 and a screen shot




Kevin

[Wet Feet]

Sorry, videos do not seem to be working for me on the Forum today.

Here is the link to the video. https://vimeo.com/216237038 and a screen shot




Kevin

[Breakaway]

Photo by Ralph Middleton Munroe (The Commodore)







...from The Forgotten Frontier, by Arva Moore Parks







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So, now the video " magically" displays here.

Kevin


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[rudderless]

For an unforgettable word picture of another Florida river to the north just before the civil war, read General Sherman's memoirs. You can find his 2nd (corrected) edition all over the internet free. His first assignment is to round up a few hostile indians, but he leans towards fishing with them. Some more aggressive of his colleagues get eaten by sharks or alligators.

Later he rounds the horn via Rio and sinks off California, where he has all kinds of adventures in the Mexican war occupation and gold rush. For instance there was an armed coup takeover of the San Francisco city gov't by rich criminal miners and he couldn't quite convince Navy ships to bombard them. So an illegitimate gov't sort of rules SF to this day.

Both Sherman's and Grant's memoirs are spellbinding around the Mexican war period - they were actually wide eyed peaceniks who did their job brilliantly but compassionately when possible. For the actual Civil War the memoirs become too stuffy for me, maybe due to their concern that no war participating reader is going to feel insulted or left out.

[Chris Noto]

So, now the video " magically" displays here.

Kevin

Here? There?

[Chris Noto]

Photo by Ralph Middleton Munroe (The Commodore)

Nice! Many thanks. I'd never seen that one before.